在美國本土裔作家莫馬迪的普利策獎獲獎小說《日誕之地》中,作者將二戰后從傳統走向現代的印第安人面臨的時代困境投射于文本的兩個空間—印第安保留地和現代城市洛杉磯之中。不同于以往把主人公的歸家視為批判城市化和現代性的解讀,本文認為歸家揭示了當代印第安人在物質環境與精神家園的二元對立之外的第三種選擇,即開辟一個可以融合二者的、既是真實也是想象的第三都市空間。

In the Pulitzer prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn by Native American author N. Scott Momaday, the dilemma Indians faced after World War II, as they moved from tradition to modernity, is projected into two spaces in the text: the Indian reservation and the modern city of Los Angeles. In contrast to the previous view of the protagonist’s return as criticizing urbanization and modernity, this article argues that the return reveals a third alternative for the modern Native American people beyond the binary opposition between the physical environment and the spiritual homeland. It opens up a real and imaginary urban Thirdspace in which the two can be merged.